Running a small business from a smartphone [infographic]

Roughly a third of American small business owners use smartphones to manage their companies, performing tasks such as banking and customer relationship management. But which smartphone apps are best for you as a small business owners?

A new infographic, prepared by SalesForce Desk, goes through the most popular mobile apps used by small business. Here’s the quick rundown:

Financial management: Quickbooks, Mint.com and Office Time.

File storage: – Box.net, Dropbox and (we would add) MediaFire.

Document editing: Evernote (which is also used for note-taking) and Documents To Go. Plus, let’s not forget GDrive.

I guess in this day and age, smart businesses go mobile and easily accessible through various means. Awesome development. No wonder people really call their phones “smart phones.”

MiramarOne.com

I love the inforgraphic, great thought and excellent. If I might add just one additional almost essential ‘app’. And that would be Zopim, the live chat sales and support tool that we ourselves at MiramarOne use – as do lots and lots of other businesses. Probably not the number 1 ‘must have’ as every business is different but certainly should be on the recommended list.